But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Robert E. Howard
FailureManRememberLivingFirst
I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
Reed Hastings
BattleNowNetflixFirstCompany
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch
LiveMoneyAcceptanceBookFirst
When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.
Michael Tilson Thomas
TimeAmericanDoingFirstEurope
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
Gwen Stefani
BrotherMeDoingSongwritingFirst
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
Keanu Reeves
YouTelevisionKnowDoneFirstShow
I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.
Melissa Ordway
JobThinkThreeFirstBigFour
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
Josh Homme
TryingBandFirstInspirationUp
We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
Fred Frith
TimeGroupFirst TimeWriteFirst
I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
IndiaGoWantFirstOutsideOut
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens
BusinessMenYouFirstRuleWould
When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very real.
Sigrid
BabySongFirstRealRadioOut
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
Vito Fossella
WomenGreatMenMeGreat MenFirst
You can't be no philanthropist, no Warren Buffett, unless you make something first.
Rohan Marley
YouFirstSomethingMakeUnless
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
Julie London
BackActingFirstSingerActress
My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.
Maria Bamford
MomSisterMeetingWaySheFirst
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.
Johannes Stark
PositiveMovingPlaceFirstSee
I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.
Lou Barlow
GoodSickPlayHealthyFirstAlways
Sia is like no one else I've ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn't really seem to analyse what she's writing. She doesn't really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.
Greg Kurstin
WritingWrongPlaceSheFirstOut
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S Truman
RestHellRememberYouWonderFirst
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
Robert Indiana
ChapterFirstComeManyMoby Dick
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
Elif Batuman
TimeForestHandsFirst TimeFirst
My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.
Stephen Lang
MoneyDoingMoviesFirstDirector
Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?
Azzedine Alaia
FashionSayFirstSomethingWho
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